At 2009-04-25 13:34 -0400, Michael Glavassevich wrote:
><gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com> wrote on 04/25/2009 01:04:13 AM:
> > You won't see constraints on comments and PIs in DTD,
>
>Not quite true. Elements declared to be EMPTY [1] in a DTD are
>forbidden from containing comments, PIs and entity references (even
>ones whose expansion is an empty string).
Granted, but those are constraints on the element. One cannot
declare in a model constraints on comments and PIs themselves
regarding their cardinality and location, which is what I thought
Mukul was looking for.
I did try to be careful by saying they had places where they were
allowed to go:
At 2009-04-25 01:04 -0400, I wrote:
>Annotations can be placed anywhere they are allowed in an XML
>document without violating the constraints on an XML vocabulary.
But I do appreciate that you brought this to light for the readers of
the archive as my wording wasn't very detailed. Thanks, Michael.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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